The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate...
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The Eighty Years' War has given rise to more historical controversies than any other topic from the history of the Nederlanden [Low Countries] whatsoever...
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The origins of the Eighty Years' War are complicated, and have been a source of disputes amongst historians for centuries. The Habsburg Netherlands emerged...
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The Ten Years (Dutch: Tien jaren) were a period in the Eighty Years' War spanning the years 1588 to 1598. In this period of ten years, stadtholder Maurice...
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The years 1621–1648 constituted the final phase of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the emerging Dutch Republic. It...
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The aftermath of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) had far-reaching military, political, socio-economic, religious, and cultural effects on the Low...
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conflicts include the Eighty Years' War, the War of the Mantuan Succession, the Franco-Spanish War, the Torstenson War, the Dutch-Portuguese War, and the Portuguese...
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Pacification of Ghent (8 November 1576) was an early stage of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and groups of rebels in...
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This is a list of battles of the Eighty Years' War. Until August 1567, the government of the Habsburg Netherlands, in the hands of Governor-General Margaret...
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The years 1579–1588 constituted a phase of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the United Provinces in revolt after most...
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and Utrecht (23 January 1579) constituted a crucial phase of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the rebelling United...
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The years 1599–1609 constituted a phase of in the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the emerging Dutch Republic. It followed...
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contained the first events of a series that would later be known as the Eighty Years' War between the Spanish Empire and disparate groups of rebels in the Habsburg...
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Years' War Dutch–Portuguese War (1601–1661), part of the Eighty Years' War Palatinate campaign (1620–23), part of Thirty Years' War Anglo-Spanish War...
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Leiderdorp (section Eighty Years' War)
South Holland province and was a base for the Spanish army in the Eighty Years' War. Excavations have shown that as early as during the Iron Age in the...
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had been assisted by the English under a number of rulers in the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), starting with Queen Elizabeth I. The Treaty of Münster...
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Spanish Netherlands (section Eighty Years' War)
Calvinist Netherlandish provinces, which led to the outbreak of the Eighty Years' War in 1568. In January 1579 the seven northern provinces formed the Protestant...
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– Eighty Years' War Siege of Ghent (1584) – Eighty Years' War Siege of Antwerp (1584–1585) – Eighty Years' War Siege of Bruges (1584) – Eighty Years' War...
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The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War (Irish: Cogadh na hAon-déag mBliana), took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. It was...
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war between Spain and England broke out, forcing Spanish troops to halt their advance. On 17 August 1585, Antwerp fell. This ended the Eighty Years'...
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Thirty Years' War" is a periodization scheme sometimes used to encompass the wars in Europe from 1914 to 1945. Just as the Thirty Years' War of 1618...
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European wars, notably the Eighty Years' War between the Spanish and the Dutch, which began in 1568, as well as earlier phases of the Thirty Years' War which...
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Siege money (section Eighty Years' War)
soldiers had to be paid. There are examples from the Eighty Years War (1568–1648) and the English Civil War (1642–1651). There is also related coinage issued...
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Fort Bourtange (category Military and war museums in the Netherlands)
Groningen, which was controlled by the Spaniards during the time of the Eighty Years' War. After experiencing its final battle in 1672, the fort continued to...
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House of Orange-Nassau (section Eighty Years' War)
instrumental in the Dutch resistance during World War II. Several members of the house served during the Eighty Years war and after as stadtholder ("governor"; Dutch:...
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Maarten Tromp (category Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War (United Provinces))
admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War. Son of a ship's captain, Tromp spent much of...
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80 (number) (redirect from Eighty)
papal elections. Eighty is also: used in the classic book title Around the World in Eighty Days the length of the Eighty Years' War or Dutch revolt (1568–1648)...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949...
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Vught (section Eighty Years War)
granted the right of municipality by the Duke of Brabant. During the Eighty Years War Vught was the site of struggles between Catholic interests and the...
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The Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt, was the war of secession between the Netherlands and the Spanish king, that lasted from 1568 to 1648. The war resulted...
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